Then the Buddha thought: "Who should I teach first? This person must be interested in the Dhamma and quick to understand it." First he thought of his old teachers Alara Kalama and Uddakka Ramaputta. But they both had died. Then he remembered his five ascetic friends. When he found that they were living at Isipatana (modern Sarnath) near Varanasi, he soon left to find them.